Light on the science, High on sales talk. Unless I seriously misunderstand things, the "faster" end to end travel time has no real impact on the jetlag problem. It's only 2-3 hours and the "sleep management" aspects could be applied to existing routing anyway.
(25y international travel for work so I speak from personal experience on the kangaroo route(s) in all classes)
Having done 18-hour flights in cattle class I can only agree, 20 hours is only a bit longer and both are equally unbearable no matter how you time the meals or whatever.
> "When you have a passenger for essentially a whole day, it really does drive a whole set of new decisions," he said.
This seems weird when we have ferry, train or bus rides that can take days or even weeks. I get that planes are special in their ability to cross timezones and so warp the usual day-night rythm. But that doesn't seem enough to make this a completely novel problem. Is there something else that makes this unique?
People can get up and walk around on ferries and trains. Are there bus rides that take days? Even those most likely have breaks so the bus can fuel up, change drivers, and allow the passengers to eat, go to the bathroom and have a cigarette.
A 1920's flight from London to Australia took 9 days and included 8 stops, a day's flying from London go you to (IIRC) Amsterdam, the next night would be spent in Austria. The passengers probably got dinner and a hotel stay every evening...
Light on the science, High on sales talk. Unless I seriously misunderstand things, the "faster" end to end travel time has no real impact on the jetlag problem. It's only 2-3 hours and the "sleep management" aspects could be applied to existing routing anyway.
(25y international travel for work so I speak from personal experience on the kangaroo route(s) in all classes)
Having done 18-hour flights in cattle class I can only agree, 20 hours is only a bit longer and both are equally unbearable no matter how you time the meals or whatever.
> "When you have a passenger for essentially a whole day, it really does drive a whole set of new decisions," he said.
This seems weird when we have ferry, train or bus rides that can take days or even weeks. I get that planes are special in their ability to cross timezones and so warp the usual day-night rythm. But that doesn't seem enough to make this a completely novel problem. Is there something else that makes this unique?
People can get up and walk around on ferries and trains. Are there bus rides that take days? Even those most likely have breaks so the bus can fuel up, change drivers, and allow the passengers to eat, go to the bathroom and have a cigarette.
A 1920's flight from London to Australia took 9 days and included 8 stops, a day's flying from London go you to (IIRC) Amsterdam, the next night would be spent in Austria. The passengers probably got dinner and a hotel stay every evening...
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Give it a few years, I’m under no illusion that when faced with competition Qantas will ditch the wellness zones and extra legroom.
London-Sydney is only a bit further than London-Perth.